Re: [Mailman-Developers] Regarding Authentication of REST API

2013-04-17 Thread Manish Gill
On 04/17/2013 02:43 AM, Florian Fuchs wrote: > Hi Manish, hi everyone, > > 2013/4/10 Manish Gill : >> For the GSoC REST API project, I've been wondering about how >> authentication would work. >> >> OAuth is a way to go if we want authenticated/signed requests. I have a >> few questions regarding t

[Mailman-Developers] Working on "Better User Settings Management" project idea

2013-04-17 Thread varun sharma
Hi, I am working on "better user settings management" for past few weeks. As i have worked on django earlier also, so i am enjoying it.I branched out postorius few weeks back and sent a merge request but after having discussion with terri and florian, i now know that extension of django's User clas

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2013 project discussion

2013-04-17 Thread Avik Pal
for identifying an important message a classifier will be implemented. and thanks for pointing out the issue regarding the delivery of the message, if it is delivered twice then the existing implementation of delivery is sufficient, but if we want to deliver it only once then for each person we nee

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2013 project discussion

2013-04-17 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
In evaluating a proposal, we need to look at a number of factors: First, will it work? -- Does the proposed design accomplish the stated objective? Next: Is it useful? And: Can the candidate be expected to accomplish the task within the allotted time frame? Finally: Is it the best use for our li

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2013 project discussion

2013-04-17 Thread Avik Pal
thanks a lot for the information. Thing is that I don't think that the Spam classifier by itself is going to be big enough so I came up with this idea. Actually I also need to know what the community wants, regarding the e-mail delivery. and regarding the classifier I don't think that it

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2013 project discussion

2013-04-17 Thread Terri Oda
On 13-04-17 6:56 AM, Avik Pal wrote: Meanwhile It would be much appreciated if someone can direct me to an labeled dataset available on line. Leaving aside entirely the question of whether we should (or will) support any project that requires learning on this scale, as a former anti

Re: [Mailman-Developers] anti-spam filter

2013-04-17 Thread Terri Oda
On 13-04-16 10:31 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Pratik Sarkar writes: > I am working on the proposal.And how many slots are there for the filter > project? There are no slots for the filter project as such. The whole Mailman project has slots, and they are somewhat fluid, since we operat

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2013 project discussion

2013-04-17 Thread Avik Pal
thanks a lot Terri, I think I will go with the Enron email dataset and they are to be cross validated against publicly available legitimate mailing list mails and Spam and (hopefully) python's regular expressions will help me a lot building the synthetic set. Avik Pal Bengal Engineering & Scieen

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2013 project discussion

2013-04-17 Thread Avik Pal
> On 17 April 2013 21:02, Terri Oda wrote: > >> >> On 13-04-17 6:56 AM, Avik Pal wrote: >> >>> Meanwhile It would be much appreciated if someone can direct >>> me to >>> an labeled dataset available on line. >>> >>> Leaving aside entirely the question of whether we should (or will) >> s

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2013 project discussion

2013-04-17 Thread Terri Oda
On 13-04-17 10:10 AM, Avik Pal wrote: Don't lose hope Terri, after digging for a couple of hours came across this and its pretty much updated. http://untroubled.org/spam/ Finding sources of spam (like that one) isn't that hard; it's finding sources of legit email combined with spam and classi

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2013 project discussion

2013-04-17 Thread Avik Pal
ya I get your point, but see these are part of any machine learning project, and feature extraction has to be done considering the synthetic data set. On 17 April 2013 22:05, Terri Oda wrote: > > > Finding sources of spam (like that one) isn't that hard; it's finding > sources of legit email

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2013 project discussion

2013-04-17 Thread Terri Oda
I'm glad you're somewhat aware of the issues. I frequently encounter folk who aren't aware of the issues in machine learning, so your "don't lose hope" email set off all kinds of warning bells in my head. Going back to GSoC-specific stuff: - Enron is a very old data set - If you're going to u

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2013 project discussion

2013-04-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Avik Pal writes: > Meanwhile It would be much appreciated if someone can direct me to > an labeled dataset available on line. By "labelled" you mean pre-classified into spam vs ham? I see you already found one, but you could also check the SpamBayes and SpamAssassin distributions. > Here I h

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2013 project discussion

2013-04-17 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Apr 17, 2013, at 12:43 AM, Avik Pal wrote: >also I would like to propose an idea of my own. Many of us set the preference >in mailman to get all the emails of a day batched together, but sometimes >this means we miss important mails(though we get it at the end of the day but >we miss the moment

[Mailman-Developers] Query regarding GSoC project

2013-04-17 Thread Adwait Sharma
Hello ! By way of introduction I am *Adwait Sharma,* a final year computer science undergraduate from Bangalore, India who code a lot specially in Python. The idea I found most interesting in GSoC 2013 is Boilerplate stripper - http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Google+Summer+of+Code+2013#GoogleSu

[Mailman-Developers] Architecture for extra profile info

2013-04-17 Thread Terri Oda
Background for folk new to this discussion: Currently, all user information is stored in Mailman core, but it's minimal: a real name, a set of email addresses, subscription info, and preferences. Barry suggests that it should stay minimal: only the things Mailman needs to know to correctly de

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2013 project discussion

2013-04-17 Thread Avik Pal
thanks a lot Stephen for all the suggestions :) Avik Pal Bengal Engineering & Scieence University,Shibpur github:https://github.com/avikpal IRC:- irc://freenode/avikp,isnick twitter:-https://twitter.com/avikpalme On 17 April 2013 22:36, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Avik Pal writes: > > > M

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Architecture for extra profile info

2013-04-17 Thread varun sharma
+1 for this, i am desperately waiting for someone to do do this :) On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Terri Oda wrote: > Background for folk new to this discussion: > > Currently, all user information is stored in Mailman core, but it's > minimal: a real name, a set of email addresses, subscripti

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Architecture for extra profile info

2013-04-17 Thread Florian Fuchs
Hi, some first thoughts on it: 1) It should be self-contained. Meaning: It should not depend on any mailman/mailman.client/postorius/hyperkitty packages. 2) Like the core, it should implement a Python-based webserver. It doesn't need to run on Ports 80/443, so we don't have to care about one of